*New & Notable Teen Books - May Highlights*

Published this month and new to the collection

Updated May 15, 2025
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I Can't Even Think Straight
Atta, Dean
Paper Book
In this emotional novel in verse by the Stonewall Award-winning author of The Black Flamingo, a queer biracial teen confronts issues of race, privilege, class, and sexuality on his journey to falling in love. Kai knows who he is to others: The good grandson, the reliable best friend, the...
Soul Machine
Globerman, Jordana
A Wrinkle in Time meets Brave New World in this thought-provoking debut graphic novel about one girl's quest to save her family's livelihood--and maybe existence itself. Chloe and her older sister make souls by hand in an empty old house in the countryside. When their supply of breth--the...
Titan of the Stars
Johnston, E.k.
Paper Book
Alien meets The Titanic in this tense YA science fiction horror series by #1 New York Times bestselling author E.K. Johnston. Celeste knows every inch of this ship. She's proud of her work as apprentice engineer. And as the maiden voyage of the Titan...
This Thing of Ours
Joseph, Frederick
The powerful and timely YA novel debut from two-time New York Times best-selling author Frederick Joseph is a deeply heartfelt story--and a rallying cry against book banning. In an instant, Ossie Brown's entire future is in jeopardy when a torn ACL ends his promising...
You Started It
Khalilieh, Jackie
Paper Book
Seventeen-year-old Jamie Taher-Foster has big plans for senior year. She's made a list of things and places in Toronto she and her boyfriend of three years, Ben Cameron, need to check off before graduating. And the biggest plan of all: a very special night for the two of them at the upcoming Winter...
Get real, Chloe Torres
Maldonado, Crystal
When Chloe Torres plans the perfect summer to reunite her estranged BFFs--a cross-country road trip to see their favorite boy band!--there's only one difficulty... getting them to actually go along for the ride. Chloe Torres' birthday has always marked the end of summer--but as...
Song of the lioness, book 1: alanna: a graphic novel adaptation
Pierce, Tamora.
Paper Book
The first book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Tamora Pierce's award-winning Song of the Lioness quartet, adapted into a gorgeous, full-color graphic novel In Song of the Lioness, Book 1: Alanna, the first of four volumes adapting #1 New York Times...
You and Me on Repeat
Shyne, Mary.
Paper Book
"I fell so hard for Chris and Alicia and all of the stupidly teenage and deeply human choices that lead them into a pocket dimension of space-time. Who hasn't wanted a redo option on one of the most important days of their life?" --Maia Kobabe, bestselling artist of Gender Queer "Mary Shyne is a...
The Survivor Wants to Die at the End
Silvera, Adam
Paper Book
In this third book of the USA Today and #1 New York Times mega-bestselling They Both Die at the End series, two strangers--each with their own complicated relationship to Death-Cast--help each other learn to live. Paz Dario stays up every night, waiting for the Death-Cast call that would...
A Drop in the Ocean
Taranto, Lea
Paper Book
Sixteen-year-old Mira Durand has just been checked into the Residency Adolescent Treatment Centre for obsessive compulsive and comorbid disorders. Four years of being passed around different psych wards like a hot potato have only worsened her OCD and anorexia. Her brutal, religious compulsions,...
Dan in Green Gables : A Modern Reimagining of Anne of Green Gables
Terciero, Rey/ Aguirre, Claudia (ILT)
Paper Book
In this modern reimagining of Anne of Green Gables, effervescent extrovert Dan Stewart-Álvarez is surprised to find home and community in rural Tennessee. Despite a life on the road with his free-spirited mother, fifteen-year-old Dan Stewart-Álvarez has always wanted...
Let Them Stare
Van Ness, Jonathan/ Murphy, Julie
Paper Book
From Emmy Award winner Jonathan Van Ness of Queer Eye and #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Murphy comes a bighearted story about friendship, love--and discovering the secrets and beauty of your own hometown.  Sully is ready to get out of Hearst, Pennsylvania....

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